Here’s what I’d like to know: Who will turn things around first? Lindsay or Charlie? I really think it’s a tough call. Every time either of them takes a step in the right direction we cheer for them, hoping they’re on the right path. And then some new drama unfolds and we lose our faith that they’ll ever turn things around.

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Last week, I laid out my complaints about this All-Stars season of “Top Chef”: The contestants aren’t being challenged enough. It doesn’t feel like we’re getting enough personality. The stakes don’t seem very high.

Problems solved. All of them.

With a hilarious Quickfire and a truly difficult Elimination Challenge, this might have been my favorite episode of the season.

It was group night, the notoriously difficult point in Hollywood week when contestants must come together to work on a song and a little bit of choreography. Nerves are usually frayed, and there are tons of tears as the groups work through the night to hone their performances.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention “The Minors,” a group made up of 15- and 16-year-olds whose mamas were there the whole way, urging, cajoling and at times almost threatening them along the path to tighter harmonies.